GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3662, 21 September 1880, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Miss Adelaide Neilson left £40,0C0 to Rear Admiral Carr Glynn, to whom she was to be married, with a bequest of £1000 to Edward Compton. A scene of great confusion —almost a riot—took place among the crowd at her grave.

Ex-Empress Eugene intends to quit Chiselhursfc, and take the remains of the late Prince Imperial with her. W. Collinson, of London, offers to stake £1000 against a similar sum that D« Tanner will not fast forty days aud iorty nights, the brothers Collinson to watch him. < . ,

At the Home Rule demonstration in Glasgow a serious riot took place while a procession was passing an Orange Lodge. The police were overpowered and two badly injured, who were not expected to live. One was speared.

The French Jesuits have made two settlements in Wales.

% Dr Tait, v Archbishop of Canterbury, is reported to be about to marry a weltknown society lady. At Laseruces, New Mexico, a priest named Father Teohora Ronalt persuaded a beautiful young nun, Margnretta Garcia, to elope with him from the convent. The uncle of the girl followed the fugitives, and would hare killed her lover, but he compromised the affair by marriage. The iron masters in the West of Scotland met at Glasgow, and resolved that all the furnaces in thu country belonging to the firms represented at the meeting should be blown out at once.

Old Borneman Bull, the famous, violinist is dead.

The Kalian ambassadors at London and St. Petersburg have been summoned to Rome.

The banquet at Cherbourg, following the Naval demonstration,' was a grand affair. The French Minister of Marine proposed " Success to the English Navy," and Mr Shaw Le Fevre, Secretary to the Admiralty, responded. The fleet comprised six first- class ironclads, the flying squadron, and the torpedo squadron. Sympathy for the Premier. Mr Gladstone during his illness was not to be kept back from the newspapers. Dr Clark peremptorily forbade anything like despatches, or any attempt at grappling with the enormous mass of correspondence that had accumulated. The Premier's secretaries have gone through these letters, and .brought a selection under his notice. He has read with great pleasure the almost affectionate notes that nave been addressed to him from all parts of the three kingdoms by persons who are utter strangers to him, and to whom he is only a name and an influence. As already stated, he will presently make a general acknowledgment of these letters through the medium of the newspapers. A large proportion of letters have come from Ireland. There have been telegrams from Greece, Montenegro, and the United States. In addition to the letters, the house in Downing street has been the focus of a moßt extraordinary collection of gifts. Mr Gladstone has had sent to his sick room as many flowers as would literally fill it. Fruit has reached it in bushels. One enthusiastic admirer sent by parcels post a pound of sago, with instructions how to make it into a pudding, warranted to briug human strength from the .lowest depths. Another unknown friend caused to be delivered at the Premier's residence a huge block of ice, being, as he said, under the impression that a good deal of ice would be needed. Good Templary. Under the presidency of the Rev. George Gladstone, of Glasgow, Royal Worthy "Grand Templar, tbe Supreme Court of the Independent Order of Good Templars, commenced its sittings in Cardiff. Mrs Lucas, sister of the Right Hon John Bright, M.P 1, occupied the vicechair, and representatives were present from as the grand lodges under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. After opening ceremony, the degree of Supreme Court was conferred upon 21 qualified representatives from different counties, and the Royal Worthy Grand Templar delivered an address, in which he congratulated his. brethern on the state of the Order. The reports of the Royal Worthy Grand Secretary, Mr J. Malms, showed a total membership of 300,000 adulls, and 100*000 juveniles, of which 150.C00 belonged to Great Britain and Irelaud. A memorial from India ou the Creed question was referred to a committee, with instructions to report at a subsequent sitting. Several other memorials were read. In the evening a public demonstration was held. Irish Affairs.

Mr Dervin, Justice af the Peace, was fired at while riding home from Tuam, County Galway. Three bullets struck him in the breast without |effect, as he wore a coat of mail.

The Marquis of Waterford was warned not to attend the Bojal Agricultural Society's Show, and told that.if he went he would be shot for voting against the Compensation Bill. He was present despite the threats. There is much less excitement in Ireland owing to the extremely good accounts from the barrest. In two-thirda of the area from north to south, and throughout. the central districts, the harvest is in full operation, and the demaud for labour excessively brisk.

A meeting attended by nearly 5000 persons, was held al Keash, Sligo, at which resolutions in favour of the aboli-

(ion of landlordism and the establishment of a system of peasant proprietorship were passed. Mr Macdonald, M.P., addressing a meeting of Yorkshire miners, referred to the Irish Compensation Bill, and said he regarded the measure as a step towards a declaration in favour of the nation owning the land, instead of the followers of the Black Prince or other cutthroats who came froai foreign countries to seize it. Iron huts for policeman have been con* strncted in the County of Mayo. Five bundredd officers tind men of the Royal Marines have been ordered to Ireland. /.

A Dublin correspondent says, " The country has never been more tranquil than now, and the danger from organised bands of agitators and Fenians is now no greater than it was in former years." The Times remarks in an editorial, "There will be no popular rising where there are troops ready to suppress it." A thousand British troops have been oidered to Ireland. The defiat of the Compensation Bill created great indignation, according to Red path, the New York Tribune's correspondent, and nad done a great deal to strengthen the land agitation. The Freeman's Journal, and the other moderate land reform Whip journals come out fiercely for the abolition of the House of Lords.

; The Cork Constitution says: "The present state of the western part of Lime* rick is very disturbed. Illegal dealing is extensively carried on, and Fenianism is again beiginning to feel its way." Truth says : " Private letter from the West of Ireland depict the condition of that part of .the country in glowing colors. They speak of large quantities of arms smuggled into the cabins of the small tenants, of secret drilling on the hill-sides, of the apparitions of mysterious strangers from America, and of the latest miracle .at Knox, when the Virgin and St. Patrick appeared to the peasantry and told them to pay no rent." Thomas Boyd,* Crown Solicitor for County Tipperary, and his two sons were fired at by masked assassins armed with gnns and bayonets, near New Ross, on the night of the Bth August. Boyd was wounded in the arm, one son was shot through the lungs, and / two. others wounded in the leg. Eleven persons have been arrested in connection with this outrage. „ Sensational reports hare been rife of fighting in the County Mayo, and of the landing of arms on the Western coast, but they are all false. In a debate on the Irish Constabulary, August 26th; Richard O'Shaughnessy, of Limerick, protested against the use of bullets or buckshot, and urged the use of small shot in firing on .a mob. The Chief Secretary of Ireland said small shot were useless, and only irritated.